3. The effect of CALL on the types of written
Errors of Iranian adult leaners of English
Presented By
Hojat Jodai
English Research Center
http://englishresearch.ir/home
4. Introduction
Language learning involves errors.
Errors are inevitable (Keshvarz, 1993).
Errors are as indicators of interlanguage.
6. CALL & Error Analysis
Holland et al. (1993) :Computer
programs as analyzers of human
language.
Dodigovic (2005): CALL provides
individualized feedback, Correction,
and Ramification
13. Procedures
Researcher
Collecting of written blogs via email
Participants
Surfing the net for a recent book and writing a review for it
Teacher
Informing students about copy-write issues
16. Figure 3:The total percentage of linguistic based errors
Morpho-
syntactic
Errors, 68%
Orthographi
c , 25%
Lexico-
Semantic
Errors, 7%
17. Table 1: The percentages of the types of errors
9% 9%
6.80%
11.30%
6.80%
9%
2.20%
11.30%
2.20%
6.80%6.80%
11.30%
6.80%
0%
2%
4%
6%
8%
10%
12%
Thepercentage
The type of error
18. Figure 4: Sources of Errors
Interlingu
al
Transfer
12%
Intralingual
Transfer
87%
0%
19. Table 2: The percentages of the sources of errors
16%
9%
32%
20%
18%
4%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
Source of errors
21. Morpho-Syntactic Errors
Wrong Use of Verb groups
He is a very proud young woman and hates
Heath a lot and wants to, lives in Paris. (live)
Wrong sequence of tenses
He became so religious and he discovers Islam
as a religion of brotherhood. (discovered)
Errors in the use of articles
However, it is revealed that she had an cancer.
(null)
22. Intralingual Errors
Overgeneralization
They wore ties, walked on two legs, drinked
water.( drank)
False analogy
He went to Smith house and stolen the gold.
(stole)
Faulty categorization
She is a very proud young woman and hates
Heath a lot and wants to lives in Paris(live).
23. Interlingual Transfer
Transfer of morphological
elements of L1
Two pig took the role of leader.
(Pigs)
Transfer of grammatical elements
The cook is preparing some
delicious sandwiches, cookies and
etc.
24. Conclusion
Only sentence level errors were detected
by online e-rater .
Nature of errors in CALL are not different
from general linguistics.
CALL reduce the native language
interference
